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Quantum: QuEra, Harvard and MIT Researchers Demonstrate Logical-Level Magic State Distillation
From insideHPC

Quantum: QuEra, Harvard and MIT Researchers Demonstrate Logical-Level Magic State Distillation

BOSTON, July 14, 2025 — A team of scientists from QuEra Computing, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has reported the experimental...

From Computational Complexity

How much money did Francis Scott Key give to have a building named after him?

 UMCP has a building named The Francis Scott Key BuildingSTUDENT: How much money did Francis Scott Key give to have a building named after him?BILL: He didn't give...

Why measuring productivity is hard
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Why measuring productivity is hard

Studying productivity is challenging. About 15-20 years ago, I was obsessed over my own productivity. I created a spying agent to monitor my activities and time...

Squid Dominated the Oceans in the Late Cretaceous
From Schneier on Security

Squid Dominated the Oceans in the Late Cretaceous

New research: One reason the early years of squids has been such a mystery is because squids’ lack of hard shells made their fossils hard to come by. Undeterred...

AWS Announces AI Servers with NVIDIA Blackwell
From insideHPC

AWS Announces AI Servers with NVIDIA Blackwell

Amazon Web Services announced general availability of P6e-GB200 UltraServers with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips. The servers are designed for training and deploying...

Tradecraft in the Information Age
From Schneier on Security

Tradecraft in the Information Age

Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance.

Using Signal Groups for Activism
From Schneier on Security

Using Signal Groups for Activism

Good tutorial by Micah Lee. It includes some nonobvious use cases.

AI Forcing New Technology for Data Center Network Interconnectivity
From insideHPC

AI Forcing New Technology for Data Center Network Interconnectivity

.... a new era of unpredictable traffic growth is upon us, driven by the emergence – and soon, dominance – of artificial intelligence. A recent global survey found...

Canadian Scientists Use D-Wave in Quantum-AI Simulations
From insideHPC

Canadian Scientists Use D-Wave in Quantum-AI Simulations

A team of scientists from Canadian particle accelerator center TRIUMF and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics have unveiled a "transformative research...

Registration Opens for SC25 in St. Louis, Nov. 16-21
From insideHPC

Registration Opens for SC25 in St. Louis, Nov. 16-21

The annual Supercomputing Conference, SC25, is now open for registration. This year's event will be held in St. Louis from Sunday, Nov. 16 to Friday, Nov. 21 .....

Denodo Announces Deep Research AI Capability
From insideHPC

Denodo Announces Deep Research AI Capability

PALO ALTO, Calif. July 7, 2025 – Data management company Denodo announced the availability of the Denodo DeepQuery capability, as a private preview, enabling generative...

Memory-level parallelism :: Apple M2 vs Apple M4
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Memory-level parallelism :: Apple M2 vs Apple M4

The Apple M2, introduced in 2022, and the Apple M4, launched in 2024, are both ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) designs featuring unified memory architecture. That...

From Computational Complexity

The Customers of the Academy

I had an epiphany reading an article in the Trenton Times when I lived in New Jersey at the turn of the century. The article interviewed companies along a certain...

AI for Science: Livermore Lab Expands Deployment of Anthropic AI
From insideHPC

AI for Science: Livermore Lab Expands Deployment of Anthropic AI

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is expanding its deployment of Anthropic’s Claude for Enterprise to its entire laboratory. Anthropic said Claude will...

A Gold Standard for Collaborative Science: Leveraging CCC/CRA Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Computing Research
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

A Gold Standard for Collaborative Science: Leveraging CCC/CRA Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Computing Research

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently released a memorandum to federal agencies to offer guidance on implementing the recent executive...

SiPearl Tapes-out HPC and AI Chip Rhea1, Closes €130m Series A, for European Tech Sovereignty
From insideHPC

SiPearl Tapes-out HPC and AI Chip Rhea1, Closes €130m Series A, for European Tech Sovereignty

SiPearl, the company building European processors for supercomputing and AI, said it has “completed the conception” of the Rhea1 processor, which the company said...

DOE ASCR Awards 38 Million HPC Node Hours
From insideHPC

DOE ASCR Awards 38 Million HPC Node Hours

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science today announced that it will award over 38 million node hours to 56 scientific projects under the Advanced...

Yet Another Strava Privacy Leak
From Schneier on Security

Yet Another Strava Privacy Leak

This time it’s the Swedish prime minister’s bodyguards. (Last year, it was the US Secret Service and Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguards. in 2018, it was secret US military...

Pots fixing problematic acoustics
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Pots fixing problematic acoustics

by Dimitrios Giannoulis, Queen Mary University of London Pots are buried in the walls of medieval churches and monasteries across Europe: in the UK, Sweden, Denmark...

The AI Tsunami: Reshaping Computer Science Education
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

The AI Tsunami: Reshaping Computer Science Education

A recent New York Times article by Steve Lohr, “How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?”, powerfully highlights the profound impact of generative AI...
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